A Bay Shore man will spend 15 years in prison after admitting to sex trafficking multiple women and abusing an underage girl, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced.
Danny St. Louis, 45, was sentenced on June 23 to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of post-release supervision. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
According to prosecutors, St. Louis met the 13-year-old victim through a mutual acquaintance in early 2023 and supplied her with cocaine before repeatedly abusing her. Authorities said he later introduced the child to crack cocaine, causing her to become addicted. The abuse continued until October 8, 2023, when police located the girl in a hotel room with St. Louis after she had run away from a residential drug treatment facility.
Prosecutors said that between March 2023 and March 2024, St. Louis profited from the prostitution of two additional victims by providing them with drugs to maintain control over them.
In another incident, authorities said St. Louis arranged for a 20-year-old woman to meet him at a Hauppauge hotel on March 3, 2024. After providing her with crack cocaine, he kept her in the hotel room for two days, prompting her family to report her missing. Prosecutors said St. Louis later accused the woman of stealing drugs, forced her to undress, shower, and have sex with him to repay the alleged debt.
According to prosecutors, Danny St. Louis was arrested on March 14, 2024, after he agreed to provide a buyer with access to one of the trafficking victims, along with drugs, in exchange for money.
St. Louis pleaded guilty on May 21, 2026, before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei to three counts of second-degree rape, two counts of sex trafficking, and one count of attempted sex trafficking.
On June 23, 2026, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of post-release supervision. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Dana Castaldo and Zachary Kelly of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Human Trafficking, Elder Abuse, Anti-Bias Team (HEAT) Unit. The investigation was led by Detective Joseph Collins of the Suffolk County Police Department’s Human Trafficking Investigations Unit, with assistance from multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Child Exploitation/Human Trafficking Task Force.
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